Saturday, July 5, 2014

Recently, Goldberg has been digitising his huge analog archive, a
process that has prompted him to re-edit his older series with the
benefit of hindsight. A reworked version of Raised By Wolves, now an
expensive collector's item, is promised, but the first fruit of this
process is a new version of Rich and Poor (1977-85), which has been out of print since 1985.Rich
and Poor looks at the social divide in 1970s and 80s America in
Goldberg's now characteristic style – black-and-white portraits
accompanied by handwritten texts from the subjects. The use of ephemera
is central to his way of working. "There's a thread that runs through
all the work that is to do with bearing witness," he told me in 2009.
"The photographs are about asking questions, though, not answering
them. I'm not a politically radical person. In fact, I'm much more
interested in being radical aesthetically."

You can read the full story HERE. Well worth a read, in particular given the current debate about the perils of income and wealth inequality.

About Me

My pictures explore the strange anthropology of cities. The unusual and overlooked in the human landscape.
I am asking the viewer to question the idea that photographs as documents are complete representations of subject.
I'm interested in the universality of life and the idea of parallel lives - when one thing is happening here, something else is happening over there. The democracy of non-places fascinates me, in the knowledge that inevitably nothing is as it seems.
I work and live between Auckland and Paris.
http://harveybenge.com/
email:harvey.benge@xtra.co.nz